Photographer Tries to Sell Story of ‘Rocky’ vs. Woody

March 30, 1991 | BOB POOL | TIMES STAFF WRITER

…”When Thursday’s incident began, Woody said, he was sitting in a rented 1991 Honda Civic and chatting with a friend, singer-songwriter Philip Norris. He said he uses rented cars to avoid being recognized.

“It was insane. He kept ramming my car repeatedly. What kind of nut uses a $100,000 battering ram?” Woody said of Stallone. “He and his bodyguard in another car were alternating ramming me. I was very lucky not to get hurt.”

Still, the incident was all in a night’s work for Woody, a 6-foot, 3-inch Texan who joined Hollywood’s corps of paparazzi about 16 months ago after working 20 years as a portrait and fashion photographer.

Since then, he said he has sold pictures of movie stars to dozens of European publications, along with American tabloids like the National Enquirer, Star and Globe.”

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